Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band foundedin1995by members of
the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and earlyintheircareer featured many musicians but by
2004 the line-up had coalesced with 4 core members and frequent vocalguests.

The band have a reputation for phenomenal live shows and releasing frequent albums on a number ofinternationalrecordlabels, as well as the
Acid Mothers Temple family record label which was established in 1998 to documentthe activit ...read more

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band foundedin1995by members of
the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and earlyintheircareer featured many musicians but by
2004 the line-up had coalesced with 4 core members and frequent vocalguests.

The band have a reputation for phenomenal live shows and releasing frequent albums on a number ofinternationalrecordlabels, as well as the
Acid Mothers Temple family record label which was established in 1998 to documentthe activitiesof thewhole collective.

There seems to be a bit of confusion in regard to the name of the bands. Kawabata Makoto explains.

"Though we shall henceforth be Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, the new group will also be known in shortasAcidMothers Temple
and this will no doubt sow confusion in the minds of many. But the true manifestations ofAcidMothersTemple are many—Acid Mothers Temple
& the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & the CosmicInferno,AcidMothers Temple SWR. The future may see yet other groups
bearing similar names. But each and all of them willbetruemanifestations of Acid Mothers Temple..